So who wrote the book on this subject? Whitney Webb
Short Summary of One Nation Under Blackmail: Vol. 2 by Whitney Webb
One Nation Under Blackmail: Vol. 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein (published 2022) continues Whitney Webb’s investigative deep dive into the historical entanglement of U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies with organized crime networks, building directly on the foundations laid in Volume 1. While the first volume traces the origins of this nexus back to World War II—focusing on events like Operation Underworld and the formation of the National Crime Syndicate involving figures such as Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy Siegel—Volume 2 shifts to the modern era, examining how these networks evolved and directly enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s operations.
The book meticulously details Epstein’s rise, his close ties to key associates like Leslie Wexner (the retail magnate who funded much of Epstein’s early activities) and Ghislaine Maxwell (daughter of media mogul and alleged Mossad asset Robert Maxwell), and their integration into broader intelligence and criminal ecosystems. Webb argues that Epstein’s sex trafficking and blackmail schemes were not isolated acts of depravity but state-sponsored endeavors, rooted in decades-old tactics of sexual compromise used by intelligence agencies to control influential figures in politics, business, and media. Key themes include: